Seeing AI app, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA

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Developer - Microsoft Corporation (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?4302)

seeingai.com (https://www.seeingai.com)

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https://youtu.be/R2mC-NUAmMk

Microsoft Cognitive Services: Introducing the Seeing AI app

Published on Mar 30, 2016


Saqib is a core Microsoft developer living in London, who lost the use of his eyes at age 7. He found inspiration in computing and is helping build Seeing AI, a research project that helps people who are visually impaired or blind to better understand who and what is around them. The app is built using intelligence APIs from Microsoft Cognitive Services (www.microsoft.com/cognitive).

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"Decades of computer vision research, one ‘Swiss Army knife’ (https://blogs.microsoft.com/next/2016/03/30/decades-of-computer-vision-research-one-swiss-army-knife)"

by Allison Linn
March 30, 2016

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https://youtu.be/rVF2duPVUTY

Seeing AI app - Nadella intro from Build 2016 conference

Published on Apr 25, 2016


Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduces the Seeing AI app and software engineer Saqib Shaikh at the Microsoft Build Developer Conference. Shaikh, who lost his sight when he was seven, helped develop the app, which uses computer vision and natural language processing to describe a person's surroundings, read text, answer questions and even identify emotions on people's faces.

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https://youtu.be/-QggOOLI8z8

Microsoft & LV Prasad Eye Institute – Better eye care for all

Published on Aug 23, 2016


Microsoft using its Power BI and Cloud solutions partnered with to L.V. Prasad Eye and resulted in over 400,000 new patients, see 1.1 million consultations paperless and generate actionable insights.

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https://youtu.be/PbAZudKQ73g

Intelligent vision technologies

Published on Sep 27, 2016

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https://youtu.be/bqeQByqf_f8

Seeing AI app from Microsoft

Published on Jul 12, 2017


Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the blind and low vision community, this ongoing research project harnesses the power of AI to open up the visual world and describe nearby people, text and objects. Seeing AI demonstrates how technology can make the world more inclusive.

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https://youtu.be/gJhdgbRAilw

Seeing AI app - Product Channel

Published on Jul 12, 2017


Product Channel gives audio beeps to help locate barcodes and then scans them to identify products.

Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the blind and low vision community, this ongoing research project harnesses the power of AI to open up the visual world and describe nearby people, text and objects. Seeing AI demonstrates how technology can make the world more inclusive. Available in the iOS App Store.

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https://youtu.be/EGBB-4TW__k

How Seeing AI narrates the world

Published on Oct 9, 2018


Anne Taylor from the Microsoft accessibility team shares with CEO Satya Nadella how the Seeing AI app enables her to turn the visual world into an audible experience.

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"What’s that? Microsoft’s latest breakthrough, now in Azure AI, describes images as well as people do (https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/azure-image-captioning)"

by John Roach
October 14, 2020